culture underlying political and territorial core areas" (1999, p. 6). Therefore, Yang focused on feminist issues in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the PRC, which are considered below.
In Chinese culture, feminism's journey split when the Guomindang (also Kuomintang or KMT) fled from the mainland to Japanese occupied Taiwan (now the Republic of China or ROC) in 1949, while the Communist Party took control of the government in the PRC. In the meantime, the British government still held colonial control over Hong Kong. This meant women either embraced state feminism, erasing gender in favor of providing equally for women and men, espoused traditional kinship ties while accepting limited equality, or lived a bifurcated life between public colonialism with Western values, and th
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